Kent in the Twentieth CenturyNigel Yates This is the sixth volume to be published in the major ten volume new history of the county of Kent, and the first detailed study of the development of Kent during the past hundred years. The sixth volume to be published in the major ten-volume new history of the county of Kent, and the first detailed study of the development of Kent over the past hundred years. Each of the ten chapters begins by evokinga picture of Kent on the eve of the First World War and looking at the changes that have taken place between then and the present day in the area under discussion. Particular attention is paid to the impact of the two World Warson Kent; to the influence of national events on local institutions and people; to the role of the county council in the development of many aspects of life in Kent; and to the major economic and social changes of the last thirty years, many of them associated with Britain's entry into the European economic community and Kent's strategic importance as a corridor linking London and Britain to Europe. NIGEL YATES is senior research fellow in church history, University of Wales, Lampeter. |
Contents
Population | 1 |
An Overview | 27 |
Railway workers at entrance to Eastern Station Ashford c 1910 | 39 |
Erecting shop at Ashford Railway Works 1947 | 40 |
Medway Brewery at Maidstone showing the river in flood | 41 |
Agriculture and Rural Society | 59 |
Posed photographs of Kent hop pickers c 1907 | 79 |
Stilt men stringing hops at Hermitage Farm Wateringbury 1960 | 80 |
Architects original proposals for development at Aylesham 1928 | 204 |
Building plots at Kings Road Biggin Hill 1925 | 205 |
Health and Social Welfare | 229 |
Victoria Home and Hospital Broadstairs c 1900 | 253 |
The County Sanatorium at Lenham opened in 1919 | 254 |
Airraid damage to Dartford County Hospital 1940 | 255 |
Playing croquet at Medway Old Peoples Home 1952 | 256 |
Popular Education | 287 |
Hop picking at Nettlestead Farm Paddock Wood 1958 | 81 |
Outdoor staff at Eastwell Manor c 1920 | 82 |
Horsedrawn sprayer at Bethersden c 1930 | 83 |
Modern tractor ploughing at Wye 1979 | 84 |
Land girls being addressed by Minister of Food Lord Woolton | 85 |
Transport | 117 |
Calais steamer at Dover harbour 1910 | 129 |
Boat Express at Ashford station c 1920 | 130 |
Aerial view of Lydd airport Aerofilms Ltd | 131 |
Politics | 153 |
Cartoon by Emmwood in The Daily Mail showing Edward Heath | 173 |
Cartoon by Garland in The Daily Telegraph of Edward Heath | 174 |
Housing | 199 |
Aerial view of Downham Estate on the boundaries of Bromley and | 203 |
Pupils at Sundridge School c 1910 | 297 |
Standard fourvalve wireless receiver for use in Kent schools 1927 | 298 |
Bookbinding class at Stelling Minnis School 1936 | 299 |
School dinners c 1960 | 300 |
Pupils at Singlewell County Junior School Gravesend 1974 | 301 |
Religion | 321 |
Charabanc outing for the parishioners of Elmsted and Hastingleigh | 327 |
Culture and Leisure | 335 |
Sissinghurst Castle one of the earliest properties in Kent to be | 351 |
Mobile library van c 1925 | 352 |
Appendices | 369 |
Guide to Further Reading | 395 |